Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865)

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Oil paintings art reproductions, master arts works from famous painters and Old Masters all beginning with the surname W.

Sir David Wilkie

Konrad Witz

Rogier van der Weyden

Jean Antoine Watteau

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

John William Waterhouse

Benjamin West

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Antoine Wiertz

Zygmunt Waliszewski

Short biography of the the Belgian Romantic painter Antoine Wiertz.

The Belgian Romantic painter Antoine Wiertz born in Dinant, Belgium, 1806. He entered in 1820 the Art Academy in Antwerp. From 1829 till 1832 Wiertz stayed and lived in Paris. He studied there at the Louvre. In 1832 he became at his 2nd attempt the Prix de Rome. After that the Romanic painter settled in Rome from 1834 till 1837, in the same year he returned back to Belgian, Liege. He left this city in 1845 after his mother dead and went to Brussels. In Brussels he opened his own work shop what later became a museum, the Wiertz Museum. The Belgian Romantic painter died in his Art studio, Brussels, 1865.

The Belgian Romantic painter Antoine Wiertz.

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